No special rules for computer simulations (G 1/19 “Simulations”)

On July 15, 2020, case G 1/19 on the patentability of computer-implemented simulations had been heard by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO). A few months later, on March 10, 2021, the EPO published the eagerly awaited decision.

The earlier interlocutory decision T 489/14 dealt with, among other things, the question of whether the examining division originally responsible had rightly rejected the European patent application concerned (“Simulation of the movement of an autonomous entity through an environment”) due to a supposed lack of inventive step. The Board in
case T 489/14 had submitted the following questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal...

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